се
Bulgarian
pronoun
Definitions
- (reflexive pronoun) the accusative short form of the reflexive pronoun себе си, part of reflexive verbs, denoting that the subject is simultaneously the direct object; corresponds to myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
- (reciprocal) accusative reciprocal pronoun, denoting that the agents perform the mutual actions among themselves; corresponds to each other, one another
- (reflexive pronoun) reflexive pronoun, part of autocausative verbs, denoting that the referent represented by the subject combines the activity of actor and undergoes a change of state like a patient
- (reflexive pronoun) reflexive pronoun, part of anticausative verbs, denoting that the subject of the verb undergoes an action or change of state whose agent is unclear or nonexistent
- (reflexive pronoun) used for passive constructions with transitive verbs and undetermined agent
- (reflexive pronoun) used for passive constructions with transitive verbs and determined agent
- (reflexive pronoun) inherent part of an unergative reflexive or reciprocal verb with no meaning of its own, and an obligatory part of the verb's lexical entry
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sę.
Origin
Proto-Slavic
*sę
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- się Polish
- *sę Proto-Slavic
- se Czech
- se Serbo-Croatian
- се Serbo-Croatian
- глася́ Bulgarian
- страх Bulgarian
- страхувам се Bulgarian
- съглася се Bulgarian
- съгласявам се Bulgarian
- усми́хна Bulgarian
- усмихна се Bulgarian
- се Macedonian
- sa Slovak
- se Slovene
- сѧ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- сѧ Old East Slavic
- se Lower Sorbian